Beary Nice

Hello everyone, Well it's nearly that time of the year when we celebrate Easter, which was in my mind, when Shell at MTTC (My Time To Craft) suggested for our challenge this week to use Bears, nice, cuddly,   lovable bears. i have always liked DL cards, as these are called, I think it means Double Length, the card measures 3.5 " wide x  7" long. Sorry I still believe in feet and inches. I used a lovely Tatty Ted - A Do Craft  stamp and coloured it with Promarkers. I'm so looking forward to seeing your Beary Nice projects, please take a peek at the challenge blog to be inspired by the Design Team. Thanks for any comments you may leave.

Silhouettes

For the next two weeks at Fantasy Stampers, we are looking to see your projects to fit our challenge of
Silhouettes - the Design Team have made a varied selection which all fit the challenge. Please pop over and check it out. You must use some form of actual stamps, sorry digis are not allowed. I apologise for the poor quality of the photo, taken late at night, poor light. I am going to a craft event tomorrow, but promise will re-new  this as soon as I can.

White and turquoise card stock.

Distress Inks - Peacock Feathers, Bundled Sage and Crushed Olive

All stamps are from Lavinia stamps except

the Greeting Stamp from LOTV. 

Have fun everyone I will be popping around to visit you, I would be grateful for a nice cup of coffee.

D is for Die-Cuts

Hello everyone, firstly let me apologise for the days's delay in posting my design card for Alphabet Challenges for the letter D which Marie chose DIE CUTS - A nice change for us to challenge you with. 

My computer crashed on Monday, well it was 15 year old, and going very slow. New one was acquired fairly quickly and to stay I am struggling is a good way to describe it. Especially with pictures etc., hence my

lateness. Never mind, at last I'm here with my Die Cuts card. I used papers,die cut greeting and  die cut flowers from the Vogue collection from Craftwork Cards - and a Die cut birdcage. I hope you have fun playing with die cuts. If you don't have a machine or dies, don't worry none of mine above have been cut by me, all in a pack die cut and ready to go. Have fun everyone.

Gone Fishing

This week at Cardz 4 Guyz Janice in the US has chosen for us GONE FISHING - I believe this is the most popular sport for men in the UK, not sure about it in the US.  If your new to the male orientated blog you will know we accept any medium, technique, we are happy for you to either stay in your comfort zone or experiment. To this purpose this week, I decided to make a card using an old favourite of mine, and again I believe one of the most popular forms of card making and that is decoupage.  My card is made from papers and the decoupaged image from a CD 'The Best of La Pache 2012' which is a wonderful source for a wide variety of topics. I really can't say I designed the card, for I did follow a format from the CD, but I did make the card. So whatever you choose to do, check out the wonderful DT inspiration over on the blog, for there are various formats of techniques. Hope you'll join in with the challenge, Looking forward to visiting you. 

Going Around in Circles

Jocelyn has chosen Going Around in Circles for us at CD Sunday Challenges this week. I do hope my card for the Design Team fits into the brief, for I will be honest, sometimes as a DT member we too struggle to beat the challenge, but we must give it a go, so I hope you will too.  I'm sure you'll come up with some amazing effects, as the remainder of Team B have, please pop over to see their cards. I made mine with papers from Debbie Moore - Lizzy Lu Inspirations, this was a new CD for me, having missed it on TV,  but a friend kindly loaned me it, there are some wonderful flower scenes and soft spring colours. Have fun everyone, looking forward to visiting you over the next week.  

Mother's Day or Special Lady

This week, we at My Time To Craft, would like to see you make a project/card for a Special Lady in your life or if your fortunate a Mother's Day card, for here in the UK it will shortly be Mother's Day. I recently purchased a 6 inch square pad of Papermania Parisienne papers from the Capsule Collections. I fell in love with these papers, as did the ladies at my card making class, below I have added a selection of some of the cards which were made at a class. For this card I used the following.~~~~

Plain White and Navy card stock 

£ sheets from the Capsule collection of Parisienne papers.

Dragonfly stamp from Sheena Douglas on card and vellum

Flower from Chloe stamps, stamped twice with a large pearl stone added. 

Cream lace

Greeting stamp and die from Go - Kreate.

I hope my card has helped you to go ahead and make a card for your Special Lady. 

As mentioned - completed homework cards from a recent class. Didn't they do well? 

Tag It!

It's been a while since I made a tag,  I do enjoy making them, they can be so different. For this next week at Cardz 4 Guyz ,( my own little baby, my first challenge blog),  Jan from the DT has chosen our challenge ~ TAG IT! You can either  make a tag or tags on their own, or you can add them to a card. Please pop over to see the wonderful cards and tags made by the DT. I'm sure you will be inspired to take part. For my tag,  I reached for my Tim Holtz stamp box, he never fails me. The main image of the 3 Wise Gentlemen is from Crafty Individuals. Coloured with Promarkers. A Metal button and two metal brads added for dimension and texture. Enjoy the Journey everyone and have fun.